Our Angry Sun! Solar flares, eruptions and other sun storms can have serious effects to satellites and other systems around or on Earth. Take a look at some of the worst solar storms known to humanity.

Space weather experts predicted that jets of charged particles smacking into the Earth's magnetic field could disrupt navigation and communication systems, and spark a bonus of bright northern lights dancing across the ionosphere. Nohing much happened.

Like the plot of a sci-fi B movie, something weird is happening deep underground where the constant spin of Earth's liquid metallic core generates an invisible magnetic force field that shields our planet from harmful radiation in space.

A previously undiscovered type of aurora could be brightening the skies over the poles, according to satellite images of the Antarctic. Polar rain auroras are likely to be common occurrences which nobody has distinguished from traditional aurora.